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Author Steve LeVine is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy and the author of The Oil and the Glory, a history of oil told through the 1990s-2000s oil rush on the Caspian Sea. He is also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he teaches energy and security in the Security Studies Program.
LeVine, also the author of Putin's Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the lives and deaths of six Russians, is a former chief foreign affairs writer for BusinessWeek and Central Asia and Caucasus correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, based in Almaty and Baku. He previously covered the same region for the New York Times and Newsweek. From 1988-1991, he was Pakistan-Afghanistan correspondent for Newsweek. From 1985-1988, he was Manila correspondent for Newsday.